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RV offers legal help outside NY, NJ family courts

Associated Press
5:13 p.m. EDT August 27, 2014

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, Corey Thomas, left, gets child support payment information from Project Child Support founder Kai Patterson onboard an RV outside Essex County Family Courthouse in Newark, N.J. Project Child Support is a new program that offers low-cost legal advice to parents from a refurbished RV parked outside courthouses in New York and New Jersey.
(Photo:
AP Photo/Rachelle Blidner
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The project works out of a brightly painted RV. Employees hand out flyers and business cards and invite passing parents to discuss child support cases and payments with an attorney onboard. Sometimes, they even console parents as they leave court hearings.